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Show HOOPER APPEALS FOR BETTER ROAD An Open Letter to the County Commissioners Com-missioners Please, sirs, whon can Hooper have a road? Some few times before, this 6ame plaint has come to your official cars, we believe. It is bordering on a dozen years since It was mildly suggested to your honorable honor-able body tbat to give the north and oast part of the county, yea, and the west all parts seemingly, save the southwestcompact gravel highways while the deulzens of Hooper rolled Joyfully to market through the thick mlrc or a cloud of the drier partlclos, was attemptlnK to stretch the cloak of justice to fit over the case. This "southwestest" of the towns has things to sell and money to spend. The people wish to get to Ogden to do both. Just now that the fountains of tho f'eep are breaking up. It has been a particularly sweet Job to get from Hooper to the county seat. Gravitation Gravita-tion has had a partlculally pronounced effect upon a horse and buggy getting over the road To travel thus is to run a horso to a corpse In double- I quick time. The county must not longer cry, "No funds." Too much of a business era Is upon us today to give ear to such Idle talk. The Increased valuation valua-tion of property In the great district such a highway would tap, would pay back the money thus invested by the county, directly and indirectly And the county would have the road. Bestdes, we bethink ourselves that, some years since, when it was desired de-sired to build a rock road to Harris-vllle Harris-vllle and Farr West, and another to North Ogden, ways and means were found. And an expensive tramway was provided and the thing "was did." At such times subterfuges are not resorted to The money Is raised and the deed is done. Is not Hooper, plus Hooporltes. worth a road to town? There Is something some-thing out there, aside from sahuratus and muskrat. mis dutr uas mways led the procession for the count v In carting the homely beet to the Oncden Sugar mill. Take out the product of this town and a not Inconsiderable hole would bo made in David Eccles 6ugar output. This is one Item Again, at sundry times. Hooper has grown brains as well as brawn. She has mothered more would be professional profes-sional men meu and women that aro now earning their living with their brain rather than the hand than any other town in the county. This assertion as-sertion will go unchallenged Successful Suc-cessful lawyers, a ipractioner, high churchmen, also pedagogues galore, have coroo out of here. More of the sons and daughters of old Hooper have yearned after higher education--and gone after it than any other tributary of Ogden. At present, for example, vvell nlfh a score of Hooporltes Hoopor-ltes aro wielding the rod over the rising .generation far and noar. The educational mills, respectively of Spanish Fork. Woodruff, Rich county. Syracuse. Hooper. Roy, Eden. Kanon-villo Kanon-villo and one of these at Idaho Falls aro at this moment presided ovor by the Hooper-brfld. Thla deos not Include In-clude an inntructor In the Summit academy and a dozen other minor-prade minor-prade teachera Ono party, from the 'metropolis" went down to Hooper, said he had always al-ways supposed her to be a little spot In the baclrwooda. full of fond memo-rieK. memo-rieK. etc. Ho visited what he con-feesed con-feesed to be a rery high-Rrade Sun-revclatlon. Sun-revclatlon. Most of Ogden and northern north-ern towns labor under like hallucinations. hallucina-tions. Glvo us Justice, that is to say a road, and lt people know us aa we are. The county owes Hooper City, Including Kanesvllle, that much. Why not? Hasn t sh coughed up her quota of tax fund yoar after year? Hasn't she ipald dollar for dol-lur dol-lur with Iluntavlllo. North Ogden, Har-rleville. Har-rleville. Slatervllle, etc they of llicv rock roads? Tculdes Hooper has the' Lake. Tourlsta coming from various points might occasionally want to drive out and see tho renowned "Doad Sea of America." which Vould not. lu the long run, take any money out of the comity, nor any preetleo away from It. "We hear of a proposition to spend a thousand or so on this road. Thla sum will bn nowhere In making a road, a rock road, to Hooper town Why not throw In a goodly sum? Then O-don O-don commercial clubs will add there-oto there-oto For the stream of cola that Hooper has of late (ourcd Into the commerce of Ogden Is something of a factor with Opden business men. .Please can Hooper have a road fSlpned) A MEMBER OF THE HOOPER PROGRESS CLUB. j |